Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:44:07AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: ... The FreeBSD installer shows the same ACPI errors as NetBSD and OpenSolaris, and it remains to be seen where it's going to be fixed first. Hopefully all at once with a BIOS update... Cheers, Patrick

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD [Was: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD]

2010-01-07 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:24:42AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: Booted NetBSD 5.0/amd64 with no problem -- but with ACPI errors noise on the console. Rebooted w/o ACPI -- the console is clean. Installed 5.0.1, via FTP. (Again, what a beautiful installer NetBSD has!...) ACPI -- errors on

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD [Was: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD]

2010-01-07 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Joerg (Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:10:50 +0100) * | You know, it would help if you would include the most basic data in an | unmanagled form. acpiec0 is clearly complaining during your boot about | not being able to install an handler for the region. Pretty much | everything else is fallout

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD

2010-01-07 Thread David Holland
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:51:58PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote: You might like to know about apropos(1): I am told that officially apropos(1) is deprecated, and substituted with man -k. Which does, in fact, say that it's the same thing. I think deprecated may mean little more than

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD

2010-01-07 Thread David Holland
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:44:07AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: But: man -S N STRING to work, and man -S N -k STRING not?... I think you're looking for man -s, which works fine. I didn't even know -S existed. It seems that the problem is that -S is defined